gaza is rocked by new israeli strikes, palestinian authoritieauthorities plead for international help to treat the wounded. israel accuses hamas of kidnapping one of its soldiers in gaza. but hamas says he may have been killed. hello, i am laura, you are watching al jazerra live from doha. also ahead, a an explosion at a factory in china kills at least 65 people. and the world health organization warns west africa

leaders of catastrophic consequences if they fail to control ebola. ♪ ♪ israeli shelling has continued in to the morning in gaza. that follows a bloody friday which began with a few hours of ceasefire and ended with more than 80 palestinians dead in rafah. two israeli soldiers were also killed and another has gone missing. israel has accused hamas of kidnapping the 23-year-old officer. but hamas says it does not know his whereabouts and suggested he may have been killed in an ambush. at least 1,650 palestinians have been killed and more than 8,900 injured since the offensive began over three weeks ago. 63 israeli soldiers have also been killed as well as two israel i civilians and a thai worker. plus more than 225,000

palestinians have taken refuge in u.n. sel shelters al jazerras reporters from all over. and here is a report from shijaiyah, an area that has seen some of the worst shelling. >> reporter: taking stock of what's left. these residents returned to shijaiyah after an agreed 72-hour ceasefire. people climbed through the rubble to try to recover whatever they could from their battery-damaged homes. since july 20th. this area has been a no-go zone. that's when israeli bombs and artillery shells killed dozens of palestinians and wounded around 280 others. >> translator: we came back because of the ceasefire, we found our home in ruins, everything is gone here. all the houses, the mask, everything. >> reporter: less than an hour after residents returned, this happened. an israel i air strike in the distance. those who came back hoping to

reclaim what little about left of their lives had no choice but to turn back. queen a scene of chaos and anguish on the streets of shijaiyah as flee over fierce of more violence on the main road leading out she tells us her tears are not of sadness but of anger. >> translator: god punish the israelis they destroyed my home. they attack our people. god punish them. >> reporter: as we were talking, she nearly faints. the stress of leaving her home again too much to bear. the u.n. brokered 72-hour ceasefire fell apart so quickly that thousands of shijaiyah's other residents left with whatever they could care i including the remains of loved ones for burial and about a knowledge that it will be a long time before they are able to rebuild their lives. >> he joins us now live from

gaza city. the day after this cease five was supposedly in place, but instead gazans are again coming under fire. >> reporter: that's right. it's now exactly 24 hours since the most intense fighting of what was supposed to be a ceasefire began. and it's really in the area of rafah, which has seen some of the worst fighting. it is an area near the board wee are egypt. we understand in the last 20 hour hours alone, around 120 people have been killed. many more injured. and we also understand that fighting there continues. we also understand that in the area there is has been fighting, in an area of course where many of hamas' leaders call home. but here in gaza city, we have also seen violence, overnight there were several air strikes, we understand several buildings were targeted, including a mosque. but an hour and a half ago, when i was speaking with our colleague martin dennis, there

was a loud bang while we were speaking, and i can just show you or rather we are exactly where that happened. in fact we are at the islamic university of gaza and this is what happened an hour and a half ago. an israeli air strike on this university. thousands of students used to come here to study. used to come here to learn. and that's all that's left of it. it is in complete ruins, and frankly, it's in a very terrible state. i'll just have my camera look to the ground as women. you can see notebooks ago. you can see remnants of, you know, what students had, these are their notebooks, this is what they used to study. you can see handwriting here, much of it in english, some of it in arabic, but, again, it really just under scores just how unpredictable and volatile this situation is all over gaza. again, this happened an hour and a half ago. the destruction is enormous. and it really just lends to the sense of insecurity, this sense of frustration that so many

gazans have, so many of them telling us with this fighting. now entering it's 26th day. >> it's extraordinary to see that building. it's almost completely demolished. why might it have been targeted? >> reporter: it is stage it's hard to say. in fact, if you go to areas of gaza which have seen some of the worst fighting, as you saw in my package, we were in shijaiyah, which is a neighborhood not far from here, it begs the question just why these areas need to be damaged, destroyed, at such an extreme degree. the israeli military saying that they are targets, it's a pinpoint operation. we have seen the exact opposite. in fact i will just show you begin just the destruction of this university. it's -- it's impossible to think just how the people of gaza will be able to rebuild this building. how they will be able to rebuild from all of this destruction. and this is just one building struck in the last hour and a

half overnight as we have been saying several buildings have been targeted. and it's now, again, we are in the 26th day of fighting. so many buildings have been struck, so many buildings have been destroyed. and so while we look at just the sheer volume of casualties, the fact that over 1400 people are dead, nearly 9,000 people injured, and a quarter million displaced, it's, of course, a massive humanitarian situation here. but whenever this fighting stops, whenever it begins, they will have to start rebuilding things like this and it will take a very long time for life here in the gaza strip ever gets back to normal. >> you just mentioned rafah there as well and intense fighting going on down there, a very high death toll. israel says this is in response to one of its soldiers going missing. what are you hearing from hamas on that front? >> reporter: it's a very confusing situation here, especially regarding this

missing soldier, amass saying they don't know anything about it. they don't -- excuse me believe that the soldier has been kidnapped. and when you hear from the brigade, which was fighting with israel israeli forces accordingo their time line of events that, this soldier was taken captive. but the brigade saying that all their fighters died in that fighting. so a very confusing situation, or rather confusing scene here in goose a about just what exactly happened. why this ceasefire broke, literally within an hour or two of its starting. and what, indeed, happened to this israeli soldier, whether he's missing, kidnapped or indeed dead. >> okay. thanks very much for joining us there from gaza city. amazing to be able to see first hand some of the destruction there so soon after that university behind you was attacked. let's gross over now to our

diplomatic editor james bays he is live no us in west jerusalem arjoins us from there. we were just discuss that go missing i rays i soldier. that's become a key point in the israelis in its operations especially down in rafa. what are you hearing from west jerusalem on this now? >> reporter: a great deal of concern about the state of second lieutenant goldin, the official line from the israeli military is that they extensive searches in the area continue. i know his fate would have been discussed at a security cabinet meet that go took place late in to the night they sat for five hours. they sat during the jewish sabbath and that's rare in itself. that's why we haven't had any statement at the end of that meeting. you don't tend to get israeli officials making any public statement during that one day of

observant, i think we'll expect to hear an update from israeli officials at sundown or soon after sundown this evening when it's over to give us more of an update. certainly the operations on the ground, the israeli military on the ground don't stop for that, they continue their operations as you are seeing with your report that you just some hirayama. >> at this time yesterday, it was a few hours, the ceasefire was still looking like it would be put in to place and there was a lot of talk of movement on the ground in terms of diplomacy and all sides moving to egypt for talks. are we hearing anything more on that from front or is all movement now off the table? >> reporter: well, we are hearing from both the palestinian side and some egyptian sources that there is the possibility that these talks could still be on. we know that the israelis were

never going to go to cairo until the end of the day of observante here they won't going to fly until saturday evening local time. it's not clear whether israel well still send anyone to it the talks in cairo. it's also very, very clear right now that the trust and there was very little trust to begin with, that may have existed, that may have made these talks, talks that could perhaps lead to a final lasting ceasefire, that has disappeared, there is very little trust left. and i think it will be very hard to see how this is going to work. remember the plan was pretty clear. it was stop all the fighting, get this humanitarian pause going and then start the talks. the pause would not only help the people of gaza because it would be a humanitarian pause it would give a space in which the diplomacy would happen. floss space right now the bombard. continues. >> absolutely. thanks very much for the update there james, from west

jerusalem. two people have been killed as pal stain vinnies across is occupied west bank protested against israel's offensive in gaza. isreali police used tear gas against demonstrators. protesters blocked a road and threw stones at the security forces. and there is another rally. a number of people were injured after police fired at them. in. united states congress has vote today provide israel with an additional $225 million in military aid. the house of representatives passed the bill by an overwhelming majority just after the senate gave its approval. the extra money will help fund the iron dome which stops rockets coming from goose a. it intercepted three. let's bring you some other news now, 65 people have died,

more than 120 others injured in an explosion at a car park factory in the eastern chinese city. the blast happened at a workshop in the factory that polishes wheel had yo hubs. the plants provides car parts for general motors in the u.s., adrian brown has been following developments from beijing. >> reporter: we still don't know what caused this explosion. it happened at a metals factory. now, this metals factory is part of a vast industrial complex and there were several hundred people in the plant. pictures searching on china's equivalent of the twitter show badly burned survivors sitting in groups outside the factory. also pictures of torso in the back of a pickup truck that are charred. most of the people are being treated in hospitals. we don't know exactly what

caused the explosion, but industrial accidents in china are very, very common indeed. some 7,000 people died this way in 2012. that's almost 200 a day. and the reason for this say unions, is that safety standards in china are very lax, they really lag behind economic growth. in fact in, this same province just a few months ago several people were killed in an explosion at a chemicals factory. now this is a center for manufacturing and also for electronics and these goods are exported all over the world. it is a key economic had you been and today the scene of a truly horrific industrial accident. still to come here on this program, more countries pull their people out of libya after the worst fighting since the up rising in 2011. plus a gold rush in bangladesh as border patrols catch a record number of smugglers, we'll tell you what's driving the increase.

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♪ ♪ hello again, reminders of the top stories here on al jazerra. israeli shelling has continued in to the morning in gaza after a short-lived ceasefire collapsed early friday. eight palestinians and two israeli soldiers have been killed in the latest fighting. israel is looking for one of its soldiers it claims hamas has captured him. hamas says it does not know where the soldier is. 65 people have died, more than 120 others injured?

an explosion at a car parts manufacturer in eastern china. lets get more now on the situation in the gaza strip. and mohamed abu ab due is a human rights activist. he has family in gaza, whom he hasn't been able to contact for four days. mohamed joins us from sweden via skype. good to have you on the program. what was the last you heard from your family? >> first of all, thank you for having me on your show. and the last time was just one week ago when i called them on skype, that's the only means of communication i can contact my family or friends in gaza. and the situation was really terrible because their area was -- they tried to evacuate their area, but the thing is we have two families staying with my family, there is like three families staying in the same house because some family members evacuated their house,

there house is near the sea and the borders east of gaza. it's just like i can't imagine this hug humanitarian really toh situation in gaza right now. just one week ago because when israel showed the power plant in gaza, there is no access to clean water or electricity or even the cooking gas for the right now maybe more than 90% of gaza is under the -- under darkness and there is no water and it's really hard to make phone calls as well because due to the people running out of to charge -- running out of that i charge on their batteries on their phones. it's really extremely hard to communicate with people in gaza. >> do you know why they weren't able to leave their homes to evacuate their area? >> because the thing is, what has happened in shijaiyah, it was really -- it was a tough

lesson for the people, people were warned by the -- what's call the i.d. f or the israeli occupation forces, you have to evaluate your houses and go not nearest schools, when & when people evacuated their house on his the way to the schools, they were shelled and killed by the airplanes and the israeli tanks and then when we reached the schools as they call it a safe place to evacuate too they were she would and more than 40 people were killed and more than 200 people injured. there is no safe place in gaza, even since the beginning of this onslaught there was no safe place to go. so that's why people they have no place to escape to. it's like maybe they prefer to die in their houses because there is no place to take refuge to. so i think the question even

when some areas where people couldn't even evacuate their houses to go somewhere, that's safe in gaza. i received some calls from some friends year the border east of shijaiyah. just like knee contact like international organization or the red cross, but the thing is the red cross couldn't respond to these calls, some people died, some people were massacred, and there was -- there was -- there were families in east of the city, they were like 10, 20 people were killed just like execution actually, and it was just yesterday i saw the images on al jazerra when the -- after the ceasefire was declared. >> okay. >> and it's just -- it's disturbing images actually. >> absolutely. mohamed, we do hope you manage to contact your family soon,

thank very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> to talk about the situation in gaza. now fighter jets reportedly under the control of the renegade libyan general has struck in ben gas a. benghazi. fighting continues after a coalition captured a number of army bases there. in tripoli they are still battling for control of the airport. the continued violence has forced some country to his evacuate their diplomatic staff. the latest is the u.k. which has closed it's i'm bassi and pulled out its people. the on friday more than more than 100 chinese and european nationals were evacuated they were picked pipe a gree up by ay frigot. trutunisia has closed it's main border crossing with libya. >> reporter: every day for the

past two weeks, thousands of people have been crossing this supporter between libya and tune tunisia, fleeing for their lives, some are libyans, others are foreign nationals and, some are diplomat who his have been order today evacuate. for most of these people, this border crossing is the only way out. fighting between libya's rival militias as closed down tripoli's airport and has made life in libya increasingly dangerous. >> translator: you turn the television on and you don't understand anything. there is no news hank tore explain what's happening. you hear rumors outside in the street and again at home, so you are afraid. you are scared. >> reporter: thousands of egyptians have been stranded along the libyan border with tunisia. at one point riot erupted as the crowds tried to storm the border crossing. on friday, the tunisian

government closed the border crossing allowing just a few people through. one of tunisia's main concerns is security. the government fears some of the strong islamic militant groups in libya will use the pass to go infiltrate in to tunisia, exploiting the chaos to smuggle weapons. 10s of thousands of foreigners make their living in the oil-rich country. and some despite the vi violence are refuse to go leave. 13,000 filipinos are still there. their minister is traveling there to persuade them to leave. >> we were ale own to bring back about 760 and about 200 are waiting there for evacuation, that's even less than a thousand. so we have 12,000 more to go to evacuate. >> reporter: for those trying to flee libya, the tunisian government measurements semen fair but for many tunisians watching the conflict spin out of control there is real concern

that it may still over to their own country and there is strong support for the tunisian government'sests and measures to control the border crosses. al jazerra, tunisia. the head of the world health organization is warn that go failing to stop the worst-ever ebola out break could have catastrophic consequences, margaret launched a $100 million response plan at a summit with west african leaders, jarel tan has more. >> reporter: uniting against ebola. business leaders in sierra lyon's capital free town or a campaign to spread the word. >> -y wei need to join together to make sure that we fight against ebola. it has no remedy. >> reporter: a killer that has now taken more than 700 lives in sierra lyon, liberia and guinea this year. the heads of those west african nations have agreed to create an isolation zone at the heart of

the out break. they have been meeting the world health organization chief who makes in appeal to the international community. >> you must support the extraordinary measures by providing experts, laboratory tory capacity, protective clothing, and other resources, including financial resources. >> reporter: this is the largest out break cincy bol since -y g s identified in 1996. two aid workers in liberia are being flown to atlanta for treatment. the first time an infected victim is entering the united states. >> they have become infected through medical care, and we feel that we have the environment and expertise to safely care for these patients and offer them the maximum opportunity for recovery from these infections. >> reporter: ebola is highly contagious and spreads through

direct contact. yet out breaks have largely been restricted to africa. >> it's really only a threat to countries that have sort of weak health systems that might not have the sort of infection control practices and materials and the sort of disease surveillance systems that can lock an out breakdown. >> reporter: ebola is the one of the most life threatening disease to his humans, attacking almost every cell in the body. there is currently no cure or vaccine, a problem some blame on the lack of financial incentives for pharmaceutical company to his develop and one that they say needs to be addressed. gerald tan, al jazerra. customs official in bangladesh are struggle to go keep pace with a gold smuggling rush. authorities say the country has been a transit point for gold heading illegal to interim i can't. a report from the airport. >> reporter: the international airport is on high alert. over the past year it's become a gold smuggling hub.

this man is suspected of smuggling gold bars, he's being asked to show what is inside a suspicious package inside his luggage, lucky for him it's just a gold mechanic las and he's allowed to move. these men are on no so lucky they were caught with 60 bars of gold wrapped tightly around their legs. >> translator: the smugglers are bringing in gold in many different ways, some inside the soles of their shoes, some in brief cases others attaching it to their bodies. some people are putting it inside the rods and linings of their suitcases, some are even hiding it inside televisions. >> reporter: these men say they were just doing what they were told, take the gold from point "a" to points "b," receiving it from people they don't know and also handing it over to people they don't know. he said he was paid $60 to smuggle 10 bars of gold the last time did he it. >> translator: i am just a driver they approach me and ask me if i wanted to do it once before.

and the money was good, so i agreed to do it again. >> reporter: but it's not hard to figure out where this gold was supposed to be heading. while large amounts of golds are being brought in to bang banglah illegally almost every day, traders here say it's not affecting their business at all. that's because almost all of the precious medal is headed to neighboring india. india recently raised its import tax on gold in 2012 before the tax hike only 25kgs of smuggled gold was ceaseed in bangladesh. last year after the takes are tax hive, more than 25 times as much. this year initials say it's evening worse. >> translator: lang los angeles dish has a demands for nuckled gold but nowhere near enough to justify the amount that we have been getting. so obviously bangladesh has become a transit route for gold headed to india. >> reporter: there there is a

silver lining of sorts the gold that is ceased means it's handing over to bangladesh making their central bank coffers a little richer. that's it for me and the team here for the moment. you can always keep up-to-date with all the news on our website. aljazerra.com. . >> the 72 hour cease-fire between israel and hamas fell about 70 hours short. one again the two sides blame each other for the continuing fighting and dying. it's the "inside story." >> hello, i'm ray suarez. it was thursday evening eastern time in the united stateen